Ben Furman interviews British Child and Adolescent psychiatrist Sami Timimi from Lincoln about whey the failing mental health care system is faling and what can be done to save it.
If only a lot lot LOT of people would see/hear this interview! This is so valuable! Respectful acknowledging human life and the 'things' that come with it – resources of clients (and the family and friends/the 'warm' system) – avoid stigma – no waiting list … So much important answers for the struggling mental health care system as it is right now in many countries!
This video should be made compulsory for all mental health service employees to view and put into action.It also needs to be be viewed and acted on by by high ranking politicians as of immediate effect.
This has been my view ever since I first came into contact with people who display behaviour currently categorised as 'suffering' from a 'mental illness'. People with power in society – and the people working in those systems – create and reinforce categories of experience that they define as illnesses … and so we move headlong towards the sorry state we are now in. We need to hold back the diagnostic 'boxes' and begin by listening to how people are troubled, how their think their lives are going … and work from there.
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If only a lot lot LOT of people would see/hear this interview!
This is so valuable! Respectful acknowledging human life and the 'things' that come with it – resources of clients (and the family and friends/the 'warm' system) – avoid stigma – no waiting list … So much important answers for the struggling mental health care system as it is right now in many countries!
Absolutely (sadly still) mind-blowing! I wish we could have such brave clinicians in my area.
Decent nurses and psychiatrists NEVER will say they are purely biological.
Recognising and early intervention, yes, excellent. Looking at the human, yes, most good psychotherapeutic and psychiatric books already say these.
This video should be made compulsory for all mental health service employees to view and put into action.It also needs to be be viewed and acted on by by high ranking politicians as of immediate effect.
Bravo
Well said sir!
I never was comfortable with the way pseudo medical language provides an open chequebook for the pharmaceutical giants
And pathologising labels also turn our attention away from the treacherous societal injustices and deceptions that cause human distress
This has been my view ever since I first came into contact with people who display behaviour currently categorised as 'suffering' from a 'mental illness'. People with power in society – and the people working in those systems – create and reinforce categories of experience that they define as illnesses … and so we move headlong towards the sorry state we are now in. We need to hold back the diagnostic 'boxes' and begin by listening to how people are troubled, how their think their lives are going … and work from there.